what does cloud burst exactly mean?

Question

as per me its just excess rain or is it some thing else? advice please.

Answer 1

Cloud burst is actually a situation when the intermolecular forces between the H2O molecules get very high due to the rapid decrease in the temperature or excess of electrostatic induction in the clouds causing the lighting to remain inside the cloud only, which causes hyperactive energy inside the cloud.
The water molecules get denser and denser and get condensed but do not leave the cloud due to excess of electroforces.
As the water concentration get higher and higher and so the weigh gets heavier the water no longer is able to maintain force with the clouds and so they fall and it precipitates.
As the water content is so high and also(as per the law of conservation of enrgy) the electricity remains in it, the clous seems to be bursted.

Answer 2

a hoop around the moon (or solar, for that count) as considered with the aid of skinny clouds is termed a halo. The halo is approximately 22.5 levels in diameter and is brought about via refraction and mirrored image of the moon's (or solar's) gentle because it travels in the process the water vapor clouds. interior the daylight hours you may from time to time see what are termed "solar canines", the place there's a layer of cloud to the two fringe of the solar, and interior of this deposit is a rainbow colored vivid area. If the clouds have been non-end you might have a halo...this is in simple terms that the clouds are discontinuous. there are a number of comparable and outstanding such atmospheric phenomena, and that i urge you to get between the Peterson's classes to the ambience, or comparable instruction manual. maximum of those phenomena are defined there, and there are experiments, as nicely. It was once an "previous wive's tale" that the form of stars you will discover interior the halo around the moon is the form of days in the previous it rains. That truly isn't actual, however the halo does recommend there is important larger point moisture, which may well be indicative of moist climate forward.

Answer 3

heyya,,,,,

A cloudburst is an extreme form of rainfall, sometimes mixed with hail and thunder, which normally lasts no longer than a few minutes but is capable of creating minor flood conditions.


Etymology
They are called 'bursts' probably because it was believed earlier that clouds were solid masses full of water. These violent storms were attributed to their bursting.

There are similar names for such events in other languages. For example, in Polish the equally vague term used is "Oberwanie Chmury".


[edit] Properties
Cloudbursts descend from very high clouds, sometimes with tops above 15 kilometers. Meteorologists say the rain from a cloudburst is usually of the shower type with a fall rate equal to or greater than 100 mm (4.94 inches) per hour.[1]

During a cloudburst, more than 2 cm of rain may fall in a few minutes. When there are instances of cloudbursts, the results can be disastrous.

Rapid precipitation from cumulonimbus clouds is possible due to so called Langmuir precipitation process in which large droplets can grow rapidly by coagulating with smaller droplets which fall down slowly.


[edit] Cloudbursts in the Subcontinent
In the Indian subcontinent, a cloudburst usually occurs when a pregnant monsoon cloud drifts northwards, from the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea across the plains, then onto the Himalaya and bursts, bringing rainfall as high as 75 millimeters per hour[2].

An example was the sudden cloud burst over the Indian city of Mumbai and other regions of western India, which occurred on the 26th of July, 2005. Approximately 950mm of rainfall was recorded in Mumbai over a span of eight to ten hours; the deluge completely paralysed India's largest city and financial centre.

Cloudbursts frequently occur in Himachal Pradesh during the monsoon. The monsoon rains during July and August put a lot of water into the Himalayan soil.


[edit] World Record Cloudbursts[3]
1 minute: 1.5 inches / 38.1 mm at Barot, Guadeloupe, 26 November 1970.
5 minutes: 2.43 inches / 61.72 mm at Port Bells, Panama, 29 November 1911.
15 minutes: 7.8 inches / 198.12 mm at Plumb Point, Jamaica, 12 May 1916.
20 minutes: 8.1 inches / 205.74 mm at Curtea-de-Arges, Rumania, 7 July 1947.
40 minutes: 9.25 inches / 234.95 mm at Guinea, Virginia, USA, 24 August 1906.



[edit] In News
On August 14, 2007, at least 100 people were feared washed away in flash floods caused by cloudburst at a village near Shimla.[4]
In July 2007, close to 30,000 people were displaced in Kerala after a cloudburst & flash floods following it.[5]

Answer 4

A cloud burst results literally when rain and wind burst from a cloud. Often as a storm approaches, the first strong rain falling from the storm front entrains masses of air moving down to the ground causing wind gusts and bending trees, etc. It is often a warning that the heavy rain will soon follow.

Answer 5

It is a very heavy rainfall with rates sometimes around 5 inches per hour.

Nazar forgot to cite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudburst

Answer 6

A sudden small and very intense rain shower. We get those alot during Arizona's monsoon season.